Speaker Series: Populations Rendered "Surplus" in Canada
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"Erased, Displaced, Misplaced: Reclaiming [Asian Canadian] National Identity Through the Arts."
About: Rachel Wong (she/her) is an Adjunct Professor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto, Canada. Her teaching dossier includes courses in Canadian Studies, Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Composition and Rhetoric Studies. Additionally, she is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her thesis, “Literary Asiancy: Agency and Activism in Asian Canadian Literature” investigates the intersections of activism and literature. Her research also investigates issues of kinship, community, and the diasporic experience in Asian North American literature. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Western University.